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Repetition of the same sound beginning several works or syllables in sequence
What is Alliteration
100
Brief reference to a person, place,or event (real or fictitious) or to a work of art
What is allusion
100
repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines
What is anaphora
100
repetition of words in reverse order
What is antimetabole
100
Opposition or contrast, of ideas or words in a parallel construction
What is antithesis
200
Old-fashioned or outdated choice of words
What is archaic diction
200
Omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words
What is asyndeton
200
Sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence and then builds and adds on.
What is cumulative sentence
200
Sentence that exhorts, urges, entreats, implores, or calls to action
What is hortative sentence
200
sentence used to command and conjoin
What is imperative sentence
300
inverted order of words in a sentence (variation of the subject-verb-subject order)
What is inversion
300
Placement of two things closely together to emphasize similarities or differences
What is juxtaposition
300
figure of speech that compares two things without using like or as
What is metaphor
300
paradoxical juxtaposition of words that seem to contradict one another
What is oxymoron
300
similarity of structure in a pair of series of related words, phrases, or clauses
What is parallelism
400
sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end
What is periodic sentence
400
figure of speech in the form of a question posed for rhetorical effect rather than for the purpose of getting an answer
What is rhetorical question
400
use of two different words in a grammatically similar way that produces different, often incongruous, meanings
What is zeugma
500
attribution of a lifelike quality to an inanimate object or an idea
What is personification
500
figure of speech that uses a part to represent the whole
What is synedoche
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